'Alibi for suicide' 1x03
Cast: Edmund Lowe (David Chase), Paula Drew (his girlfriend)
"Front Page Detective," a filmed series of crime dramas with Edmund Lowe as a newspaper columnist and amateur detective started on the DuMont Network on March 16, 1951.


This movie is part of the collection: Classic TV

Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Classic TV; 1950's Television; Jerry Fairbanks; DuMont; WABD; Detective; 1951

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Reviewer: porterville - - October 28, 2012
Subject: Edmond Lowe Was Fine in "Front Page Detective"
What a great pleasure to watch a 61 year old television program! The acting was fine with Edmond Lowe leading a good cast. The plot moved along nicely.

Reviewer: olderthanbw - - January 29, 2011
Subject: Excellent example of what can be accomplished
with a small (5 person) cast and minimal sets. Decent story, and I loved it when the guy needing an alibi asked "Do you mind if I smoke?" and his habit went on to be what proved him innocent of murder. Back in those times, smoking was very prevalent in life, and tobacco sponsored many shows, so asking permission to smoke wasn't something you heard on most TV shows.

Reviewer: Earlon - - February 21, 2010
Subject: A catalog site for Classic TV shows
If you like Classic TV from of the 50's, I found a catalog site that makes it easy to find and watch episodes streaming from Archive.org at:

http://www.solie.org/ClassicTV

There are currently over 400 individual episodes of about 30 different programs, and the site is growing day by day. Check it out!

Reviewer: The_Emperor_Of_Television - - January 10, 2010
Subject: Good
"Thank You", uploader. This series according to IMDb was made by Jerry Fairbanks Productions. The series thus has a fairly large numbger of surviving episodes for a DuMont program (about 17 in total).

The episode itself has flawed production values, but a interesting script. The episode is about a man and his girlfriend. The man stays at the detectives house saying that he needed proof he didn't cause the death of
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Turns out the man's wife commited suicide and the woman tries to make it seem her husband killed her. The final ending is corny, and dated, but good.

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Picture and sound seem good in the streaming version I watched.